Michael van Manen

The Birth of Ethics

Phenomenological Reflections on Life's Beginnings

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Produktbeschreibung

Michael van Manen explores these ethical moral complexities and conceptualizations of life's beginnings. He delves into perennial and contemporary aspects of conception, pregnancy, and birth to present ethics as a fundamental phenomenon in the experiential encounter between parent and child.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780367560652
• ISBN-10: 0367560658
• Artikelnr.: 59983012

Autorenporträt

Michael van Manen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and Endowed Chair of Health Ethics and Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a clinical practice as a physician in neonatal-perinatal medicine with the Stollery Children's Hospital.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Section I Before a Child is Born. Conceiving Ethics. Pregnant
with Child. Ultrasound Imaging and Virtual Presence. Nascent Expectations
and Hope. Meaningful Outcomes. Section II In the Cradle of the Newborn
Intensive Care Unit. Newborn Encounters. Technics of Touch. Skin-to-Skin
Togetherness. Imaging the Child. Attachment and Responsibility. Section III
Ethics and Decisions Situating Decisions. Decisions Without Choices.
Looking for Ways Out of Decisions. Thinking and Feeling Through Decisions.
Decisions and Indecisions. Falling into Decisions. Conclusions and
Beginnings. Ethical Moral Perspectives. References